New age concept of "Six Degrees of Separation"

Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries.

Social networking sites like Orkut have been pitched as the internet version of the 'six degrees of separation' supposedly connecting most people, first proposed by psychologist Stanley Milgram and Ithiel de Sola Pool. Click here, to read this interesting article which relates the theory to these sites.

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